Louise Altman
@intentionalcom.bsky.social
The future of work is based on the wellbeing of the human condition.
Reposted by Louise Altman
California is protecting environmental expertise by hiring fired federal EPA scientists for key state roles.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
'I have no regrets': Ex-federal officials flock to California
California officials are using the government shutdown to recruit more federal workers.
www.politico.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
California is protecting environmental expertise by hiring fired federal EPA scientists for key state roles.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Looking forward to this one!
MONUMENTS, an exhibit featuring decommissioned Confederate monuments paired with work by contemporary Black artists, opens in Los Angeles next week.
This is Karon Davis' Descendants (2025), showing her son, Moses, holding a squirming replica Confederate general
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This is Karon Davis' Descendants (2025), showing her son, Moses, holding a squirming replica Confederate general
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
October 21, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Looking forward to this one!
If you build it, they wil come........
The oysterman trying to oust Susan Collins raised $1 million in nine days mainemorningstar.com/2025/08/28/t...
The oysterman trying to oust Susan Collins raised $1 million in nine days mainemorningstar.com/2025/08/28/t...
The oysterman trying to oust Susan Collins raised $1 million in nine days • Maine Morning Star
Democrat Graham Platner, the Sullivan oyster farmer trying to oust long-time Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins in 2026, announced Thursday that his campaign has raised $1 million in his first nine da...
mainemorningstar.com
August 29, 2025 at 5:36 PM
If you build it, they wil come........
The oysterman trying to oust Susan Collins raised $1 million in nine days mainemorningstar.com/2025/08/28/t...
The oysterman trying to oust Susan Collins raised $1 million in nine days mainemorningstar.com/2025/08/28/t...
Thank you Lille
"A mural of the Statue of Liberty in shame" by JDL Street Ar in Lille , Roubaix France 🇫🇷
August 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Thank you Lille
Indeed.
Friendship and trust are the result of conversations.
Friendship and trust are the result of conversations.
Thinking about technology’s impact on our ability to engage with each other. It reminded me of this drawing my daughter did when she was four, which is still one of the most profound and simple things I’ve seen.
Friendship and trust are the result of conversations.
Friendship and trust are the result of conversations.
August 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Indeed.
Friendship and trust are the result of conversations.
Friendship and trust are the result of conversations.
39% US literacy rate
Wondering what a year or two of AI will do with these stats?
Wondering what a year or two of AI will do with these stats?
‘Deeply concerning’: reading for fun in the US has fallen by 40%, new study says
Over the last 20 years, the number of Americans who read daily for pleasure has seen a considerable decline
www.theguardian.com
August 21, 2025 at 11:04 PM
39% US literacy rate
Wondering what a year or two of AI will do with these stats?
Wondering what a year or two of AI will do with these stats?
A beautiful tribute to a life richly lived. Thx to Maia Duerr for it. If you have not "discovered" the work of Joanna Macy, do.
open.substack.com/pub/maiaduer...
open.substack.com/pub/maiaduer...
The Patron Saint of Lost Causes
a tribute to Joanna Macy
open.substack.com
July 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
A beautiful tribute to a life richly lived. Thx to Maia Duerr for it. If you have not "discovered" the work of Joanna Macy, do.
open.substack.com/pub/maiaduer...
open.substack.com/pub/maiaduer...
Surprised?
Recent studies have found that those who use large language models like ChatGPT tend to converge around common words and ideas. @chaykak.bsky.social reports on A.I.’s homogenizing effect on writing.
A.I. Is Homogenizing Our Thoughts
Recent studies suggest that tools such as ChatGPT make our brains less active and our writing less original.
www.newyorker.com
June 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Surprised?
Important piece. I shouldn't have to try to convince clients about the need to get past transactional communication as a fast-growing norm.
‘In an era in which AI is being proposed to do many human jobs, it takes a human to bear effective witness to humanity‘
Our crisis is not loneliness but human beings becoming invisible. When people are no longer seen, heard, or valued, isolation becomes a symptom, not the cause buff.ly/OMjFW3i
Our crisis is not loneliness but human beings becoming invisible. When people are no longer seen, heard, or valued, isolation becomes a symptom, not the cause buff.ly/OMjFW3i
June 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Important piece. I shouldn't have to try to convince clients about the need to get past transactional communication as a fast-growing norm.
why are we lying to young people about work?
open.substack.com/pub/maalvika...
open.substack.com/pub/maalvika...
why are we lying to young people about work?
hard work isn't the tax you pay for living, it's the tuition for a life worth having -your fav gen z philosopher x
open.substack.com
June 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM
why are we lying to young people about work?
open.substack.com/pub/maalvika...
open.substack.com/pub/maalvika...
Thanks @stoweboyd.bsky.social for sharing this from Maalvika. So true.
www.workfutures.io/p/lying-abou...
www.workfutures.io/p/lying-abou...
Lying About Work
Maalvika Bhat | What Do Workers Think? Small is better, Employees are scared, Employee listening works | AI Blackmail | Elsewhere: John Rawls, Joseph Stiglitz
www.workfutures.io
June 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Thanks @stoweboyd.bsky.social for sharing this from Maalvika. So true.
www.workfutures.io/p/lying-abou...
www.workfutures.io/p/lying-abou...
Imagine
This week chaotic federal immigration sweeps occurred in fields across CA-including Ventura, Kern & Tulare counties. You may have seen videos of agents chasing farm workers thru the field. Workers are terrorized.
Your gift can help us fight back.
ufw.org/immigrationr... #WeFeedYou
Your gift can help us fight back.
ufw.org/immigrationr... #WeFeedYou
June 12, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Imagine
Brian Wilson- God Only Knows Live London (2002)
YouTube video by Daniel Allen
youtu.be
June 11, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Summer School begins...... thanks @harvard.edu Pick your free courses
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Government | Harvard University
Browse the latest Government courses from Harvard University.
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May 28, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Summer School begins...... thanks @harvard.edu Pick your free courses
pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...
pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...
"Some" or many? Still in the early phases of emotional awareness in this struggle.
Remote Work Helps Some to Feel Psychologically Safe | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...
Remote Work Helps Some to Feel Psychologically Safe | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...
Remote Work Helps Some to Feel Psychologically Safe
Working from home was widespread in 2020 to protect everyone. Five years later, WFH is not just popular, it is still providing safety for some, from a variety of risks.
www.psychologytoday.com
May 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
"Some" or many? Still in the early phases of emotional awareness in this struggle.
Remote Work Helps Some to Feel Psychologically Safe | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...
Remote Work Helps Some to Feel Psychologically Safe | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...
BBB BS
🚨🚨 House Republicans are pushing for a vote **THIS WEEK** on their "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" (Yes, that is officially what they're calling it. Sycophant much?)
It's hard to sum up all of the destructive bullshit they crammed into this bill, but we tried...
🔥📞🔥 Call your Rep NOW --> 5calls.org
It's hard to sum up all of the destructive bullshit they crammed into this bill, but we tried...
🔥📞🔥 Call your Rep NOW --> 5calls.org
May 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
BBB BS
Meals. On. Wheels.
The "health" secy has spoken.
The "health" secy has spoken.
As RFK Jr downsizes the federal health agency, he's ending the only program focused on serving the aging and disabled. That jeopardizes essential services, including Meals on Wheels, which feeds more than 2 million older Americans. (gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/h...
Agency Running Meals on Wheels Is Threatened by Trump Cuts (Gift Article)
A tiny division responsible for overseeing services for people with disabilities and older Americans is being dismantled as part of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s overhaul of his department.
www.nytimes.com
April 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Meals. On. Wheels.
The "health" secy has spoken.
The "health" secy has spoken.
Save the libraries everywhere. Thanks @everylibrary.bsky.social for all you do!
The Trump administration is notifying library systems across the country that grant funding is being terminated despite pending litigation.
Washington's libraries face 'deep and dramatic' funding cuts as Trump abruptly terminates federal grants
The Trump administration is notifying library systems across the country that grant funding is being terminated, despite pending litigation. The Washington State Library and Seattle Public Library…
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April 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Save the libraries everywhere. Thanks @everylibrary.bsky.social for all you do!
If you haven't do. 100 years and still standing.
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
April 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
If you haven't do. 100 years and still standing.
Retreat, Relax, Refresh Rx. (esp after a dose of news)
Take two Van Goghs daily: the growing popularity of museum prescriptions
Research backs schemes that encourage doctors to prescribe time in cultural institutions to boost mental health and reduce loneliness
www.theguardian.com
April 9, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Retreat, Relax, Refresh Rx. (esp after a dose of news)
A great turnout from my hometown NYC. Too bad the #NewYorkTimes didn't think it merited a headline.
I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff
April 6, 2025 at 5:57 PM
A great turnout from my hometown NYC. Too bad the #NewYorkTimes didn't think it merited a headline.
Safe to say, working, for years, with the mantra that workplace relationships are not simply transactional, but golden oppportunities to "connect" and grow, connective labor/work feels critical as external forces push separation.
This week, we kick off our Relationships 2.0 series with an episode on what researcher @allisonpugh.bsky.social calls "connective labor," and how to cultivate the superpower of making other people feel seen.
hiddenbrain.org/podcast/rela...
hiddenbrain.org/podcast/rela...
Relationships 2.0: The Price of Disconnection | Hidden Brain Media
All of us want to "seen" by the people around us. This week, we kick off our "Relationships 2.0" series with a look at the concept of "connective labor" and how it can transform our interactions with ...
hiddenbrain.org
April 2, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Safe to say, working, for years, with the mantra that workplace relationships are not simply transactional, but golden oppportunities to "connect" and grow, connective labor/work feels critical as external forces push separation.
Reposted by Louise Altman
Cory Booker, winding down: "We need a greater love in this country a greater fight in this country a greater determination." And re: Strom Thurmond: "I'm not here because of his speech. I'm here despite his speech. The people are more powerful."
April 1, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Cory Booker, winding down: "We need a greater love in this country a greater fight in this country a greater determination." And re: Strom Thurmond: "I'm not here because of his speech. I'm here despite his speech. The people are more powerful."